Underworld Summary

Underworld by Don DeLillo is a book about two people from the Bronx who have a brief affair and then go their separate ways. One becomes a famous artist and the other becomes a respected executive in the field of waste management. Forty years later, their paths cross again in the middle of the Arizona desert where they briefly meet and talk for a few minutes. The years between their meetings are the...

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Don Delillo Biographies (2)

Don DeLillo writes novels that are loose-knit fabrications of the tensions, preoccupations, and manias of modern America. His books are usually shaped around a central character whose behavior is a me...
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Over the past twenty-five years, Don DeLillo has established himself as one of the most important contemporary American novelists. Prolific and wide-ranging, he has published ten major novels that r...
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